Asteroid-sample return mission enables researchers to conduct largest geophysical observation campaign of its kind
The OSIRIS-REx project made history last year as the first U.S. mission to bring back an asteroid sample from space—and with ...
Scientists Are Getting Closer to Finding Evidence of the Fifth Force
An international team of scientists put the idea to the test thanks to mountains of data regarding OSIRIS-REx’s recent ...
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OSIRIS-REx Returning Asteroid Bennu Samples To Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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Is there a fifth force of nature? Asteroids provide new clues
A research team used Bennu's tracking data to investigate the potential existence of a fifth fundamental force in the ...
Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe
In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...
A Year With Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Reveals Intriguing Clues to Origin of Life on Earth
A year after receiving the largest asteroid sample via NASA's OSIRIS-REx, significant findings about early life and the solar ...
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Scientists use asteroid data to investigate possible fifth force in the universe
In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. This remarkable ...
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return to Earth: Live updates
Here’s how it works. On Sept. 24, 2023, NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission made U.S. history by returning samples of the asteroid Bennu to Earth after seven years in deep space. NASA is just one week ...
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Osiris-Rex: Nasa confirms return of asteroid Bennu samples
The samples had been scooped up from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020 by the Osiris-Rex spacecraft. Nasa wants to learn more about the mountainous object, not least because it has an outside ...
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NASA welcomes OSIRIS-REx and first Bennu asteroid samples to Earth
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. After over seven years journeying through space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx has finally ...
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Gizmodo Science Fair: A Clever Fix Rescued NASA’s Stuck Asteroid Samples
A view of the outside of the OSIRIS-REx sample collector. Photo: NASA/Keegan Barber The OSIRIS-REx curation team is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for safeguarding pristine samples of ...